It also simplifies the unnecessary complexity in many cases, and I have witnessed both. Just like one should not use an expensive Zeiss microscope to hammer nails into a concrete wall as a hammer substitute, one perhaps ought not to stick a graph database everywhere where it does not belong. Engineering (including software) is about selecting the appropriate tooling for each job.

> If it wouldn't be narrow neo4j wouldn't need to lay off stuff.

I fail to see how the two are related. If a company struggles with the execution of their incumbent business model, perhaps it is not necessarily related to the product (may or may not be though)?